Waking Times-10/20/13, Julie Umpleby

The space-weather community is abuzz with Comet Ison, dubbed by many as ‘The Comet of the Century’.  As it travels deeper into our solar system en route to a close encounter with our sun later in November there are many watching with intense interest.

As some spectacular images of this significantly sized comet emerge (the comet nucleus is estimated to be anywhere between 0.5km – 4km in diameter), we would be wise to bear in mind the electrical nature of comets and the potential implications of its encounter with the sun. Far from being huge chunks of ice, comets are in fact more like asteroids and are highly electrically charged, with the nucleus acting as a charge capacitor. This often very high electric charge interferes with the plasma sheath of the sun, most often resulting in an outburst of plasma from the solar surface, a Coronal Mass Ejection.

Forty years ago today, a four-man crew of an Army Reserve helicopter was flying over Mansfield, Ohio, around 11:00 p.m. when they "encountered a near midair collision with an unidentified flying object," according to the official report, signed and submitted by the crew after the incident.

"It looked like we were going to collide with it and we braced for impact, and then I heard the crewmen in the back say, 'Look up!' and I observed this craft stopped directly in front of us -- stopped -- it was hovering, right over the helicopter!" (See main story illustration above)

More on : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/18/ufo-nearcollision-with-army-helicopter-40-years-ago_n_4119987.html

By: Aisha North, 10/22/2013

Dear friends! This strange mixture of tranquil but intense continues. I feel a little bit like a duck floating peacefully in the Pond while my feet are paddling like mad under the surface. But at the same time, this ”hidden activity” feels so RIGHT, like it is all coming together even if I have no idea what is going on. I know many of you also have a hard time trying to figure out what this is all about, for this feels very different from what we have experienced earlier. Here is what the CCs have to say about it:

”It may not seem like much at the moment, but you are currently entering a brand new flow as it were, and so first it will be like hesitating a bit at the edge, trying the temperature and the flow with the tip of your toe, but you will soon find yourself frolicking in these new and rather rapid but interesting waters. You see, you are currently in between two very different stages, and as such, you might find yourself rather bewildered, but this will soon dissipate, and you will all be able to navigate these new waters in a far better manner than you are able to today.

By: Oraclereport.com, 10/22/2013

Disseminating Moon Phase: share, distribute, teach, demonstrate

Moon: Gemini

Though Mercury certainly received his fair of attention yesterday, the main player today is our friend Chiron, the Wounded Healer.  In Greek mythology, Chiron was the Teacher of Teachers, teaching the epic heroes the arts of war, teaching the great healers the arts of healing (what we call today alternative healing), teaching the wide-eyed magi the arts of the stars.  He's a Renaissance type of "man" and most welcome during the birth of our Second Renaissance.

Mars and Neptune are in opposition and both are in aspect to the Chiron Point - the degree in the sky where Chiron was first sighted.  04 Taurus is Chiron's "birthplace."  The Chiron Point holds all of Chiron's energetic themes.  Mars is in trine to it and Neptune is in sextile, but the two planets are in opposition to each other.  Essentially, they are creating a Full phase to each other, as in a Full Moon.